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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Arkansas is (70 percent) OK

The Clinton obsession continues in the NY Times with an article about supposed Clinton enemies lists of those who supported Obama. The article finds not a shred of evidence that any actual lists exist, then sets about naming any number of people who appear on these non-existent *hit lists.

It is human nature not to break your neck to do favors for people who've worked against your interest. But this becomes remarkable and newsworthy in the case of the Clintons because of the Times' long effort to depict them as leave-no-village-untorched politicians, as compared with the post-partisan Obama.

Still ... given Arkansas's performance in the primary season, many folks here ought to be able to get a return phone call from Bill and Hillary. (Pat O'Brien? fuhgeddaboudit.)

PS -- On the Hillary front today, a presumptuous sermon from Sally Quinn, the queenbee of Beltway media society, who achieved her lofty perch as the Washington Post's moral arbiter by sleeping her way to the top and finishing the bust-up of her boss' marriage. She now presumes to pronounce on moral matters in the feature "On Faith." In the current edition, she is absolutely Christlike in her judgment of Clinton as possessing "naked ambition" and a "lust for power"; as inauthentic, and, finally, perhaps in need of finding a "loving relationship." Quinn apparently still hasn't forgiven Hillary for spurning a luncheon invite back in 1993. Many contend it was all downhill for the Clintons with the media pack in D.C. after that.

PPS -- Breeze through dailykos.com. The extended caterwauling about the critical attention being focused on Obama and his wife -- the "Hillaryization" of Michelle Obama, as one put it -- is so pitiful as to almost be funny. When you boo-hoo in a forest of only true believers, does anyone hear? The vainglorious lefty blogosphere may find that the mainstream media isn't so ready to serve as thuggish accomplices in shouting down critics of St. Obama and family now that the hated Clintons are out of the way. It will not be enough for Obama to respond to criticism of a high-up campaign supporter and mortgage wheeler-dealer by ruling the subject out of bounds, as he tried to do here. Republicans play hardball. You don't win by tossing a nerfball back. UPDATE: Obama has thrown his pal under the bus.

More by Max Brantley

Gary Heathcott the long-time ad and PR man who now lives in San Antonio has sued CJRW, the major ad and PR firm, over its severing of a consulting deal with him last year and asks $1.3 million in actual damages plus unspecified punitive damages.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed numerous judicial ethics complaints against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh because the law exempts Supreme Court members, even for acts committed as a judge covered by the law. In short: Bart O'Kavanaugh is above the law.

Brett Rains of 40/29 is tweeting from the Capitol that the Department of Human Services is slowing its push for cuts in reimbursements for home health aides that critics have said could force many people into more expensive nursing home and force companies that provide the services out of business.

June 2018 is the expected publication date for a novel collaboration by former President Bill Clinton and crime writer James Patterson.

Matt Campbell, lawyer and Blue Hog Report blogger, has sent a Freedom of Information Act request to Jay Chessir, director of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, and Mayor Mark Stodola related to the publicity stunt yesterday built around withdrawing from the mayor's rash pronouncement that the city would seek an Amazon HQ2 project even though the city didn't meet the company's criteria.

Little Rock police have identified two women found dead of gunshot wounds in an SUV parked next to a vacant trailer in a mobile home park at 11500 Chicot Road.

Slideshows

Arkansas vs Ole Miss at War Memorial stadium in Little Rock, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018. After leading for much of the game, Arkansas lost 37-33 when Ole Miss scored the game winning Touchdown with less that 2 minutes left.